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Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xvi, 251 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"To American planners and strategists at the outset of the Cold War, the ultimate way to gain ascendance over the USSR was only a question. What if the United States could defend its airspace while at the same time send a plane through Soviet skies undetected? A craft with such capacity would have to be essentially invisible to radar - an apparently miraculous feat of physics and engineering. In Stealth, Peter Westwick unveils the process by which...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xvi, 302 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Nuking the Moon, intelligence historian Vince Houghton proves that abandoned plans can be just as illuminating--and every bit as entertaining--as the ones that made it. Vividly capturing the fascinating stories of how twenty-one plans from WWII and the Cold War went from conception, planning, and testing to cancellation, Houghton explores what happens when innovation meets desperation: For every plan as good as D-Day, there's a scheme to strap...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 527 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The definitive history of the military's decades-long investigation into mental powers and phenomena, from the author of Pulitzer Prize finalist The Pentagon's Brain and international bestseller Area 51. This is a book about a team of scientists and psychics with top secret clearances. For more than forty years, the U.S. government has researched extrasensory perception, using it in attempts to locate hostages, fugitives, secret bases, and downed...
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